32 Facts About Ada Galsworthy

Ada Nemesis Galsworthy was an English editor, translator, writer and composer.

Ada Galsworthy was married to Nobel Laureate for Literature John Galsworthy.

Ada Galsworthy was baptised at St Clement's Church, Norwich on 24 November 1867.

When Dr Cooper died, Ada Galsworthy moved to Nottingham with her brother and mother, using the surname Cooper.

Ada Galsworthy and her mother did not get on; there was "a tragic lack of sympathy" between them.

Ada Galsworthy married Major Arthur Galsworthy on 30 April 1891 in Kensington, London, having met him the previous winter, probably in Biarritz, France.

Ada Galsworthy was six years older than Ada, with no current profession or occupation, relying on an annual allowance from his father.

Ada Galsworthy let them know she was already unhappy in her marriage.

When Chris died in the winter of 1911, Ada Galsworthy was "prostrate" with grief.

When John died in 1933, Ada Galsworthy ceased to appear in public.

Ada Galsworthy was encouraged to leave London during World War II, and moved to Torquay.

When she discovered that Muriel Elliot, a fellow piano student she had met while travelling through Europe with her mother, was homeless following a London bombing raid, Ada Galsworthy offered her a home.

Ada Galsworthy died at home in Newton Abbot, Devon aged 92 on 29 May 1956.

Ada Galsworthy's funeral was sparsely attended, with fewer than a dozen mourners.

Ada Galsworthy regularly suffered from bronchitis, asthma, rheumatism and head colds, which she and John often elevated to the level of "the 'Flu", incapacitating her for weeks.

Ada Galsworthy spent her adolescence and early adult years travelling through Europe with her mother.

Ada Galsworthy knitted a large quantity of socks, blankets and scarves for the troops.

Ada Galsworthy was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal as a member of the British Committee, French Red Cross in Company WO 329 between 1914 and 1920.

Ada Galsworthy began translating the work of Guy de Maupassant into English in the early 1900s.

Ada Galsworthy called on the assistance of her friend Joseph Conrad to help.

Ada Galsworthy regularly edited his writing and was solely responsible for his public and private correspondence, as well as creating the first three typescripts from his handwritten manuscripts.

Ada Galsworthy tore out her diary entries spanning 1895 until 1905, the duration of her affair, until the year she became "respectable" again.

Ada Galsworthy had an intellectual relationship with Polish-British writer, Joseph Conrad.

Ada Galsworthy encouraged Galsworthy's translation work and supported her work on Yvette and Other Stories, writing the preface.

Ada Galsworthy shared drafts of his own writing with her, including The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes, seeking her opinion.

Ada Galsworthy encouraged Ralph Hale Mottram, son of the trustee of her marriage settlement to Arthur, to write poetry, under the pen name J Marjoram.

Ada Galsworthy was a talented pianist and could read at sight very well.

Ada Galsworthy accompanied the well-known bass, Signor Foli, at a concert in Menton on the French Riviera and took the place of a pianist who had become ill in a concert of duets at the Salle Erard on Great Marlborough Street in 1898.

Ada Galsworthy began composing songs while in Dresden, but would dedicate more time to composition after she met John.

Ada Galsworthy set several of his poems to music, with a first public performance in 1903.

Ada Galsworthy's music was featured in a concert at London's Steinway Hall in 1907.

Ada Galsworthy set two Robert Browning poems to music: Pippa's Song and In The Doorway published as Two Songs in 1907.